The articulation of different modes of production: old and new inequalities in Maka Villages (Southeast Cameroon)

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Title:	The articulation of different modes of production: old and new inequalities in Maka Villages (Southeast Cameroon)
Author:	Geschiere, Peter
Year:	1978
Periodical:	African Perspectives
Issue:	2
Pages:	45-68
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Cameroon
Subjects:	economic history economic development Maka
Abstract:	Taking as his starting point certain differences between Rey's and Meillassour's interpretations of the articulation of capitalist and domestic modes of production, the author tries to test to what extent these interpretations can be applied in the analysis of modern developments in the country of the Maka. Southeast Cameroon, where be did fieldwork in 1971 and 1973, Soctions: Meillassoux: the domestic community and the reproduction of labour - Rey: the 'systems lignager' and the birth of 'free' lahour - Short survey of the political-economic developments among the Maka - How the Maka were incorporated into the money economy: governmental coercion and the transformation of the bride price - A class alliance of domestic elderes with capitalist interest-groups? - The function of domestic relations under capitalist dominance: the 'freeing' of labour or the cultivation of cash-crops? - Meillassoux: the inevitable collapse of the domestic community. Notes. ref.